Re: Fantasy fans...

Alma wrote:

[scifiman]

I have also quickly discovered a couple authors, GP Taylor-Shadowmancer...

...whose book "someone" sent to the Times and declared to be "hotter
than Potter", and you know, hocus pocus?...

Shadowmancer was the one I was thinking of.

I haven't read it, but by all accounts, it was good enough that it would
have been picked up by a publisher - but he was completely clueless, and
so fell for the self-publishing hype, at least that's how he came across
in the article I read.

He had, however, an inbuilt audience in form of his parishioners, many
of whom might have bought his book as a curiousity/to support their
local clergy. It *then* stood on its own feet and got people to
recommend it to their friends, and he did well with it.

If Jane Doe who works in an office did the same thing, it wouldn't work
out half as well, and if the book hadn't been good enough, it wouldn't
have worked out.

How many thousands of people have gone the same route but still sit on
boxes of unsellable books? Writers-who-hone-their-craft, on the other
hand, with a couple of exceptions, seem to be picking up publishing
credits and agents at _some_ point, at least the ones I know.

Catja
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